Master's Self-Study

Progress checklist

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Modern Architecture and Architectural Design

  1. 1. Orientation: what architects do, and how to read drawings
  2. 2. Enlightenment, industry, and the question of truth (1750 to 1860)
  3. 3. Steel frame and skyscraper: Chicago and the tall building
  4. 4. Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and Frank Lloyd Wright
  5. 5. Industry and the avant garde: Behrens, Gropius, Loos, Mendelsohn
  6. 6. The Bauhaus and the new housing
  7. 7. Le Corbusier: machine, villa, and the five points
  8. 8. Mies, the International Style, and the 1925 to 1932 debates
  9. 9. Housing, the city, and the welfare state
  10. 10. Monumentality and global modernisms
  11. 11. Critiques of modernism: complexity, the city, and pop
  12. 12. Critical regionalism, globalization, and contemporary practice
  13. 13. Building technology, structure, and climate
  14. 14. Capstone studio: a small public building

Electrical Engineering

  1. 1. Math and physics readiness (diagnostic plus bootcamp)
  2. 2. Circuit fundamentals and network analysis
  3. 3. Energy storage, transients, and the Laplace transform
  4. 4. Signals and systems
  5. 5. Fourier analysis and sampling
  6. 6. Linear dynamical systems and feedback control
  7. 7. Semiconductor physics and devices
  8. 8. Analog circuits and amplifiers
  9. 9. Digital systems and computer architecture
  10. 10. Digital signal processing
  11. 11. Probability, random processes, and communications
  12. 12. Electromagnetics, transmission lines, and RF
  13. 13. Power systems and power electronics
  14. 14. Optimization and the capstone design project

The Troubadours of France: Writing and Poetry

  1. 1. Orientation: who were the troubadours, and what is trobar?
  2. 2. Guilhem IX and the question of origins
  3. 3. Marcabru, Cercamon, and the moralists: trobar clus versus leu
  4. 4. Jaufre Rudel and amor de lonh: poem versus vida
  5. 5. Bernart de Ventadorn and the classic canso
  6. 6. Vidas and razos: inventing the troubadour
  7. 7. The trobairitz: women troubadours
  8. 8. Trobar ric and Arnaut Daniel; Dante's miglior fabbro
  9. 9. Genres beyond the canso: sirventes, tenso, partimen, alba, planh
  10. 10. Music and manuscripts: the chansonniers
  11. 11. The Albigensian Crusade, the Cathars, and the end of a world
  12. 12. North of the Loire: the trouveres
  13. 13. Legacy: Italy, Catalonia, Germany, and the modern Occitan revival
  14. 14. Capstone: a small critical edition and commentary

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